Subfamily Margaritinae Stoliczka 1868 (snail)

Gastropoda - Trochoidea - Turbinidae

Parent taxon: Turbinidae according to R. L. Squires 2010

See also Beesley 1998, Bouchet et al. 2005, Gardner 1947, Hickman 1980, Knight et al. 1960, MacNeil 1960, Perrilliat 1972, Squires and Goedert 1991 and Woodring 1957

Sister taxa: Angariinae, Anomphalinae, Arene, Astraea, Bakonyia, Bandelastraea, Coelobolma, Cynisca, Fischeriella, Flacilla, Galeoastraea, Gelasinostoma, Guizhouia, Homalopoma, Kaurnella, Klebyella, Littorinolacuna, Macrarene, Moelleriinae, Moreanellinae, Nemrac, Odoardia, Prisogaster, Prisogasterinae, Prototurbo, Torallochus, Turbininae, Turboidea

Subtaxa: Afrollonia Atira Bowdenagaza Eosolariella Gaza Igonoia Kaiparathina Margarites Semisolarium Solarioconulus

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Antarctica (1 collection), Canada (6: British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut, Ontario), Greenland (2), Iceland (1), Morocco (10), United States (19: California, Maine, Oregon)

• Pliocene of United States (2: California)

• Miocene of Argentina (1), Japan (1), Panama (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (7: Alaska, California)

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)

• Oligocene of Denmark (1), United States (7: Alaska, Georgia, Washington)

• Eocene of Belgium (1), the Russian Federation (4), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: Washington)

• Paleocene of Denmark (1), France (1), Mexico (1), Nigeria (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: California)

• Cretaceous of Austria (6), Cameroon (1), France (5), Germany (2), Hungary (1), Indian Ocean (1), Japan (20), Madagascar (4), Mozambique (8), Poland (3), South Africa (1), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (49: California, Washington, Wyoming)

• Jurassic of Turkey (1), Yemen (1)

• Triassic of China (1), Hungary (1), Italy (8), Peru (2), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 203 collections including 229 occurrences

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